jeepbassmonkey

well today started with my attendance to the MCPON (master chief petty officer of the navy) speech in the morning. but then all was said and done and i had received comfirmation that the sub was delivered (bout a week ago) and there it was in the post office sitting in a huge box. since navigating through the ship is hard enough i enlisted some help from my buddy to help me haul it up and around several decks. then after much sweating and cursing the box was finally shoved in the back seat of my faithful bucket (not the car it's going into). then i get home and ever so delicately slice the tape off. and then my jaw dropped. it wasn't soon i had a multimeter in my hand to check if the sub was still ok cause the box didn't look like it was in very good condition. then a reading of 3.1 on both coils calmed me down. time for the build to begin!

well it got all gloomy and rainy like and i don't have a garage so i scrapped it for the night. it was raining so hard on the way back from getting the terminal cup was doing bout 15 in a 45. good thing i changed my tires as the stock ones used to skid all over the place. need good tires here in guam. should have at least pics in about 11-12 hours from this post.

well it's done and i think i made the port just big enough cause i can fit my whole head in it! just have to rewire the second battery and all my amps back in. sucks it takes like 30 mins to take everything apart but takes alot more time to put it all back in! pictures comming soon and maybe a vid!

i already had the amp. not going to go crazy with it. here the box build so far.

well the box volume is about 9.367 cube with 185.5 sq in of port. oh and yea the packing was well done for the shipping of the sub. i was surprised to see so much. still need to find a sticker that says my sub can eat yours though... this is just a practice box though. i've only built boxes for 6.5s so i'm hoping this will turn out good. i might add some accumat (crap i have left over from the deadening) to further dampen the box.

thanks and we all appreciate all of you who support. though i do stick around the home front ( if you consider Guam home front) my role is to service the submarines stationed here. it's a pretty sweet deal cause i don't like to be at sea ( i know i know why did i join the navy...) and i get stupid sea sick but i love hitting ports like everyone else. only been to russia (first foreign port), japan (alright but couldn't find a car audio shop worth a look), saipan (the real chamorros), and lastly hong kong (bad ass is all i have to say). i'll take pictures of the box build but i have to change the oil first (been way to long). it's night here and i've had a long week.

like i said i took a trip to home depot. dimensions are as follows: width 36 height 28 depth 25 port width 7 port length 17.25 port height 26.5 i will be running a earthquake phd5000w as much as i don't want to. i might upgrade to a kicker 2500. just so hard to get stuff out here. still waiting on my components to get in. shop is kinda shady as of late.

oh btw i liked the sticker that came with it but i would like to see a "my subwoofer could eat yours" sticker. would be stupid and awesome at the same time.

not to sound negative but i've been on land 99% of the 2 years i've been in. even though i'm in a sea intensive rate my ship doesn't see much sea action (mostly cause it brakes down almost every time we go out). so i spend my time working on cars and then my audio system. i just ripped out everything and bought all the wood i need (good thing home depot just opened here not to long ago and they cut wood too!). going to start putting together the box tomarrow after i fix my mess up (stupid 26 1/4 instead of 26 1/2). can't wait to get some life into this thing!

did you ground the rcas to the HU and have you checked your remote wire?

Just messing around added the gorilla for kicks doesn't need to be in the final product.

rip out the back seat and rear deck (maybe get more room if you cut out any metal back there), wall it, weld the trunk shut, and call it a day.

any way we can get the specs on the box? want to see if i can fit at least 2...

any kinda ETA on the t/s parameters... kinda want to build a wedge box but still need the t/s to do it right.

i havent seen any box size recommendations or tunning suggestions. anyone happen to know the optimal box size and port tuning for a ported box for these things. i plan on running 4 but if the box size is right i think i can shove 2 more in place of the front passenger side or would it be better just to make one huge box and run 6 of these and have a the port facing the drivers seat? this is going to be my first big spl car. the re xxx just isn't cutting it.

yea i cant seem to find the t/s parameters. anybody have them?

well thanks for the info i should of known to go to the website but i've been busy as of late. looks like i'm going to have to limit myself on 3 maybe 4 as i only have a jeep liberty.

was just wondering what the total shipping weight is on 1 of these things. i want to try to get it shipped usps as it is all i can receive.

was that the weight of the subwoofer or the total weight of the sub and packaging cause it cannot be over 70 lbs...